EN Hotel Paisano is a series of works titled with the duration of their manufacture. 05:40:00, 01:00:00, 00:08:20 and 00:05:15 were made in Marfa, TX, in and around the Paisano, an iconic hosting institution reviewed as an oasis in the territory. A historical luxurious venue in a small town where most of the population is dedicated to service and farming activities.
Inside of the Paisano most of the workforce is of latino ancestry, as the majority of the people in town. In 00:08:20 an audio recording of the laundry room was made and later presented upstairs in the ballroom (a.k.a. the hispanic room), transferring the sound of a work space into the social venue of building.
Following the logics of contribution initiated with the audio captures, materials were asked from the hotel storage and used in the production of two household accessories made mimicking the actions regularly performed by the workers of the hotel themselves. Cleaning, sewing and placing were performed as a strategy of production and installation. In 01:00:00 a piece of bed-linen was restored and placed in one of the balconies of the hotels’ sun patio, as left airing. While in 05:40:00 a rug was made using part of the carpet from the hotels’ corridor and placed at the entrance of an uninhabited house in town used as temporary exhibition venue – pointing towards the increasingly inflated housing and land prices caused by real estate speculation deriving from the artistic occupation informally initiated by Donald Judd in the 70’s, which over the years lead to the over-valorization of local spaces as luxury art-potential venues.
The works were shown in the simultaneous double venue collective show Checkpoint To The Stars, hosted at the Ballroom of the Paisano Hotel and the corner building at 420-430, S. Kelly St. and W. Dallas St.

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EM, IN CHECKPOINT TO THE STARS, SUN PATIO AT PAISANO HOTEL AND CORNER BUILDING 420-430, S. KELLY ST. AND W. DALLAS ST., MARFA, TEXAS (USA);